The YIN MIND
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Contentment and Hope
The Past and The Future
[transcription of a meditation session]
What is a state of mind or consciousness?
If we understand the question, by means of subjective reference or reflection,
which is the very capacity of consciousness,
how consciousness situates
at the point of tension between stasis and flow,
we can see how our posture of consciousness
affects the … [Read more...]

WORLD BRAILLE DAY
January 4
... celebrates the magic of six small dots.
We celebrate World Braille Day in honor to give tribute to the genius Louis Braille.
World Braille Day gives an opportunity to all the organization which are working for the blind so that they can display their work and promote the Braille language and also educate the others on the issue that is affecting the blind.
In 1829, Louis Braille published the Method of Writing Words, … [Read more...]

Path to Enlightenment, 'The story of a blind girl'
There was a 'blind girl' who hated herself just because she was blind.
She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend.
He was always there for her.
She said that if she could only see the world, she would marry her boyfriend.
One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her and then she could see everything, including her boyfriend.
Her boyfriend asked her:
“Now that you can see the world, will you marry me?”
The … [Read more...]

The YIN MIND
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We have many clichés and unthinking axioms,
which we deploy, when we are challenged,
with the deficiencies, the non-sequitor reasonings,
of science, as a superstition:
i.e. 'seeing is believing’
‘I’m from Missouri’
translated as ‘observational sensing is a safe criteria for reality’.
We can not safely derive truth from reasoning.
We can not and should not trust words to be … [Read more...]

The YIN MIND
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The very word: “science”
means precisely what is contained in and is conveyed by
the phrase: “the pursuit of knowledge”.
However, science is a particular set of means
and a group of methods of pursuing knowledge.
The axioms and the truisms of science
need close examination
and a very full consideration,
in order to disclose and in order to reveal:
embedded superstitions and concealed assumptions
that are cloaked and … [Read more...]

WOMAN of ACTION
Lorre White
Lorre White is Taking Action, sharing with the Women of our World a wonderful initiative happening in our world.
ORBIS International —Saving Sight Worldwide
According to the World Health Organization, 39 million people worldwide are blind — yet 80 percent suffer needlessly.
Their blindness could have been prevented or treated.
ORBIS is a nonprofit organization fighting blindness in developing countries, where 90 percent of the blind … [Read more...]